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TAMPA, Fla. -- Alex Rodriguez reported to the New York Yankees following a season-long suspension, arriving three days ahead of schedule. Wearing a green University of Miami sweat suit, Rodriguez arrived shortly before noon Monday in a white SUV at the team's minor league complex, a short distance from Steinbrenner Field. New York's position players start workouts Thursday. After changing into Yankees' shorts and a T-shirt and a spring training cap, Rodriguez worked out for about an hour. He hit six home runs in 71 swings and took grounders at shortstop. The Yankees say Chase Headley will be their starting third baseman and Rodriguez will compete for at-bats at...

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TAMPA, Fla. -- Alex Rodriguez reported to the New York Yankees following a season-long suspension, arriving three days ahead of schedule.
Wearing a green University of Miami sweat suit, Rodriguez arrived shortly before noon Monday in a white SUV at the...

Andy Warhol would have loved this winter.
In only 3-1/2 months, every major league team seemed to have its own 15 minutes of fame, from the usual suspects to the perennial wannabes.
The Blue Jays and A's started it with a blockbuster trade, the Red...

Ernie Banks didn't call me back last week.
I left voice messages, e-mailed him, sent him a text. That certainly wasn't like Ernie. He missed last weekend's Cubs Convention, and I wanted to do a well-being check on my longtime friend. He always would call...

NEW YORK -- The New York Yankees are thinking about not making a $6 million payment to Alex Rodriguez if he hits six home runs and ties Willie Mays at 660 for fourth place on the career list.
Rodriguez signed a $275 million, 10-year contract with the...

This column was orginially published on July 24, 2005.
Two steps into the swanky Ritz-Carlton hotel in this Pacific Ocean postcard of a town off the western edge of Los Angeles, Ernie Banks asked the hostess he'd just met about her...

American LeagueCentral Division
White Sox: Additions of Jeff Samardzija, David Robertson and Adam LaRoche should make Sox instant contenders if defense holds up.
Indians: Quiet so far, but adding Brandon Moss is an upgrade. Now if the Tribe can only...

The wow factor started as a freshman at Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma, Wash., and continued in games in which left-hander Jon Lester didn't pitch.
"He was too good not to play when he wasn't pitching," longtime Bellarmine coach Rick Barnhart...

I watched Randy Johnson pitch for the first time in a college game in 1983, and his ascent from awkward freshman to Hall of Famer marks as one of the greatest transformations I've witnessed. The fact he won 24 games and pitched 260 innings at 38 in 2002...

New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez paid his cousin nearly $1 million in hush money to cover up Rodriguez’s use of performance-enhancing drugs, according to court documents filed last week in Miami.
The Associated Press, following up on a New York...

MIAMI (Reuters) - New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs in an interview with federal agents probing a Florida anti-aging clinic at the center of baseball's doping scandal, the Miami Herald...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly is a well-documented Red Sox fan.
But Kelly didn't take the bait to take a potshot at the Yankees on Tuesday when asked what he thought about Alex Rodriguez attending Notre Dame's 31-0 victory over...

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Central Division
White Sox: Might have had decent year if relievers didn't lead majors with 4.5 walks per nine innings and third-worst ERA.
Indians: Kluberrific: Corey Kluber finishes with second-best WAR among starters, just behind...

The U.S. government on Tuesday filed criminal charges against a clinic owner and six others at the center of a doping scandal involving suspended Major League Baseball star Alex Rodriguez and a number of other high-profile players.
The owner of a now...

Bud Selig contends his sport is “cleaner than it has ever been,’’ and he’s right, if only because baseball couldn’t be worse than the 1990’s and early 2000’s after Selig’s bunch seemingly to a man at ownership level intentionally looked the other way...

The Cubs played chicken with Matt Garza’s scheduled start in Arizona on Monday. The Rangers blinked when they heard AL West leader Oakland was trying to barge into the trade talks. Deal.
The White Sox can’t set a Thursday deadline in advance of Jake...

Dear Stupid (and you know who you are, Alex Rodriguez),
You cheated and you lied and you admitted it. That’s your reputation’s 1-2-3 inning for the rest of your life.
You tried to limit your lie to a specific period in Texas, but nobody believes you...

The "Weeks in Review" feature is an open thread in which commenters can talk about any current events or cultural phenomena that have caught their attention, including but not limited to the topics brought up in our traditional roundup of ...

No. 2 Yankees: 29th in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Angels. Can we have a mulligan? That's what Hal Steinbrenner or Randy Levine, the Yankees' president, is believed to have asked either Commissioner Bud Selig or Rob Manfred, Major...

No. 21 Mariners: 10th in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Indians. One run per game, plus a little more. That's what the Mariners have to find somewhere if they ever are going to reach the playoffs behind Felix Hernandez. Forget for a...

No. 17 Brewers: 14th in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Nationals. Years from now, Brewers fans should remember this. Don't blame Ryan Braun for his contract. That one's on owner Mark Attanasio, and to a lesser degree his general...